Asma Abdi 🍉
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Asma Abdi 🍉
@drasmaabdi.bsky.social
ESRC postdoctoral fellow @the University of Exeter |Decolonial Feminist International Political Economy |Gender, Race, Social Reproduction | Economic Warfare | The Middle East, Iran | Poetry, Hikes and Food
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Pleased to share my paper, “A Feminist International Political Economy of Sanctions: Crises and the Shifting Gendered Regimes of Labour and Survival in Iran", published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics. The paper is open access and available here 👇
A feminist international political economy of sanctions: crises and the shifting gendered regimes of labor and survival in Iran: International Feminist Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No 0
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Highly recommended on Labour’s macroprudential dilemma, from Nick Kotucha
Back to the Future: Labour and the Politics of Financial Deregulation
One of the professed aims of the current Labour government in the UK is to boost GDP by ‘cutting red tape’. This also applies to the financial sector, where in recent months regulators have been aske...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
So honoured and overjoyed to receive the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD thesis on the Middle East for my PhD thesis, "Towards a Feminist International Political Economy of Sanctions: Social Reproduction, Labour and Survival in Iran" at the @brismes.bsky.social BRISMES conference!
July 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I won a prize this week in the PSA conference 😍

Feeling so honoured to be awarded the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Political science Association (PSA) Elizabeth Wiskemann Prize for the best PhD dissertation in the field of (in)equality and social justice!! @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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🌟New Publication!

Raksha Gopal and I examine how Rohingya and Syrian refugees negotiate survival amid multiple forms of violence in India and Turkey. We introduce a new concept—the (in)securitization of social reproductive capacities—drawing on our PhDs @gvagrad.bsky.social.

📖Displaced Lives⤵️
Displaced lives: rethinking survival, social reproduction, and (in)security with refugees
In this article, we examine the practices of survival that Rohingya and Syrian refugees perform as they confront multiple forms of violence resulting from their forced displacement in India and Tur...
doi.org
February 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Pleased to share my paper, “A Feminist International Political Economy of Sanctions: Crises and the Shifting Gendered Regimes of Labour and Survival in Iran", published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics. The paper is open access and available here 👇
A feminist international political economy of sanctions: crises and the shifting gendered regimes of labor and survival in Iran: International Feminist Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No 0
We’re here to help
www.tandfonline.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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In the last 24 hours, four babies have died from the freezing cold in Gaza. This harsh period, known locally as "Arabiniya," brings 40 days of relentless cold. As you sit in warmth, take a moment to think of others enduring unimaginable suffering and remember: Israel is a genocidal state.
December 26, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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If you are working in UK HE, consider donating to
Brismes - the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, fundraiser to support Gazan universities & students: gofundme.com/f/the-brisme...
Donate to The BRISMES Fund for Higher Education in Gaza, organized by British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
Founded in 1973, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studi… British Society for Middle Eastern Studies needs your support for The BRISMES Fund for Higher Education in Gaza
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December 22, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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🎉 We're in the final stretch of celebrating 50 volumes! 🎉

Check out the 2019 most-cited article: "Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence" by Juanita Elias & Shirin M. Rai.

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December 18, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add
November 29, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Ethnic cleansing in Northern Gaza.
December 4, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal
w/ #OpenAccess.

It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167
Land dispossession as continuum of violence: women’s political agency in post-genocide Rwanda
The article investigates how gender and class shape women’s political empowerment in post-genocide Rwanda, where access to land creates gendered networks for women to exercise their political agenc...
doi.org
November 21, 2024 at 11:34 AM